Aims to contribute new data on verbal "-s" by systematically examining its behavior in Devon English (DE), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of verbal "-s" in nonstandard varieties of English in North America. (Author/VWL)

Explores the relationships of immediacy and verbal aggression with homophily and interpersonal attraction in the higher education instructional context. Finds that immediacy was negatively related to verbal aggression and positively related to all dimensions of homophily and interpersonal attraction and that verbal aggression was negatively…

Investigates the role of gesture in instruction giving and receiving during a cooking lesson, focusing on the recipient and his or her orientation to verbal and embodied instruction-giving. Analyzes three relevant next actions that can follow the instruct turn (embodied instruct receipt tokens, embodied repetitions of the embodied instruct, and…

A study investigated the types of gestures used, the frequency of the gestures, and the total time engaged in gestural communication by 11 visually impaired-sighted dyads; 12 sighted dyads; and 8 visually impaired dyads. Adults with visual impairments used more adapters and used gestures, emblems, and illustrators less often. (Contains…

Language transcripts were obtained from eight male and eight female participants with mental retardation, interacting separately with one male and one female adult partner. Like typical females, female participants using speech discussed people more often than males. Females using nonspeech modes, in contrast, showed a severe reduction in…

Asserts that effective communication is vital to the success of library operations and presents a communications model where various channels of communication are rated based upon immediacy, fullness, and verifiability. Channels include face-to-face communication, telephone, voice mail, telefacsimile, electronic mail, and written word. Choosing a…

Investigated links between experimentally assessed social understanding and naturalistically observed verbal communication between friends among 38 young children. Found that performance on social understanding tasks was significantly associated with connected communication between friends. (MDM)

Explains how conceptual metaphor offers a communicative tool to help counselors respect and understand clients' conceptual systems. States that metaphor is an indispensable dimension of human understanding and experience, and it allows for abstract ideas to be understood in terms of more concrete experiences. Provides counselors with theoretical…

Examines 229 responses from members of the Association for Business Communication (United States) who rated the importance of 30 business communication concepts that were divided into six categories: communication theory, written communication, oral communication, employment communication, technology, and current business communication issues.…

Attempts to evaluate the value of journalism study for verbal skills and examines the question of whether good students self-select journalism, or journalism makes good students. Finds journalism participation: (1) lowers grade-point-averages (GPAs) of students with low GPAs; and (2) raises scores on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude…

Mand functions for two stimuli (A1 and A2) were trained for 3 children with autism and were then incorporated into two related conditional discriminations (A1-B1/A2 -B2 and B1-C1/B2-C2). Tests were conducted to probe for a derived transfer of mand response functions from Al and A2 to C1 and C2, respectively. When 1 participant failed to…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare a variety of resident and staff outcomes across two types of staffing patterns, permanent and rotating assignment, and work shift. Although studies have examined these staffing patterns as part of multicomponent intervention packages, few studies have examined the isolated effects of staffing…

This research extends the range of domains within which children's gestures are found to play an important role in learning. The study involves children learning about balance, and the authors locate children's gestures within a relevant model of cognitive development--the representational redescription model (A. Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The speech…

The author discusses two concepts of transference: the broader use of transference as the "total situation", as it was called by Melanie Klein and further elaborated by post-Kleinians, and the narrow use of transference in the traditional sense. Using clinical material from the four-times-a-week analysis of a severely disturbed…

Background: This study examined power dynamics in verbal interactions between care staff and people with learning disabilities. Method: Recordings of residents' meetings in a group home for people with learning disabilities were examined. Results: The analysis showed some of the ways in which power was exercised in verbal interactions between care…